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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy neo-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film is based on Gary K. Wolfs 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit, the film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Combining live-action and animation, the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s in a timeline where animated characters really exist. The story follows Eddie Valiant, a detective who must exonerate Toon Roger Rabbit. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the rights for Who Framed Roger Rabbits story in 1981. Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg, and his production company, Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film, and Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams, while filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. Disney released the film through its Touchstone Pictures division on June 22,1988, to critical and commercial success, the film brought a renewed interest in the Golden Age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In 1947, toons act out theatrical cartoon shorts as with films, they regularly interact with real people and animals and reside in Toontown. Maroon, head of Maroon Cartoon Studios, is concerned about the recent poor acting performances of one of his biggest stars, Roger Rabbit. After watching Jessica perform at the underground Ink & Paint Club, Valiant secretly takes photographs of her and Acme playing patty-cake in her dressing room, Maroon suggests to Roger that he should leave Jessica, but a drunken Roger refuses and flees. The next morning, Acme is discovered dead at his factory by the Los Angeles Police Department with a safe dropped on his head, and evidence points to Roger being responsible. While investigating, Valiant meets Judge Doom, Toontowns Superior Court judge, who has created a substance capable of killing a toon, a toxic Dip made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene. Valiant runs into Rogers toon co-star, Baby Herman, who believes Roger is innocent and that Acmes missing will and he then finds Roger hiding in his office, who begs him to help exonerate him. Valiant reluctantly hides Roger in a bar where his ex-girlfriend, Dolores. Later, Jessica approaches Valiant and says that Maroon had forced her to pose for the photographs so that he could blackmail Acme, Doom and his toon-weasel henchmen discover Roger, but he and Valiant escape with Benny, an anthropomorphic taxicab. They flee to a theater, where Valiant explains to Roger that a toon killed Teddy before he fled to Toontown

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Beetlejuice
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Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. After the success of Pee-wees Big Adventure, Burton was sent several scripts and became disheartened by their lack of imagination, when he was sent Michael McDowells original script for Beetlejuice, Burton agreed to direct, although Larry Wilson and later Warren Skaaren were hired to rewrite it. Beetlejuice was a critical and commercial success, grossing $73.7 million from a budget of $15 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and three Saturn Awards, Best Horror Film, Best Makeup and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Sidney, the film spawned an animated television series that Burton produced and a planned unproduced sequel, Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. In 2012, new development on a sequel was announced, Barbara and Adam Maitland decide to spend their vacation decorating their idyllic Connecticut country home. As the two are driving home from a trip to town, Barbara swerves to avoid a dog, after they return home, she and Adam notice that they now lack reflections and they discover a Handbook for the Recently Deceased. The house is sold and the new owners, the Deetz family, Charles Deetz is a former real estate developer, his second wife Delia is a self-proclaimed sculptor, and his goth daughter Lydia, from his first marriage, is an aspiring photographer. Under the guidance of interior designer Otho, the Deetzes transform the house into tasteless pastel-toned modern art, the Maitlands own caseworker, Juno, informs them that they must remain in the house for 125 years, on pain of a dire fate. If they want the Deetzes out of the house, it is up to them to scare them away, barbaras and Adams attempts at scaring the family prove ineffective, despite their ability to shape-shift into monsters. Although Adam and Barbara remain invisible to Charles and Delia, teenage Lydia can see the ghost couple, against Junos advice, the Maitlands contact the miscreant Betelgeuse, Junos former assistant and now freelance bio-exorcist ghost, to scare away the Deetzes. At first, they are unaware that Betelgeuse is pronounced Beetlejuice, however, Betelgeuse quickly offends the Maitlands with his crude and morbid demeanor, and they reconsider hiring him, though too late to stop him from wreaking havoc on the Deetzes. The small towns charm and the supernatural events inspire Charles to pitch his boss Maxie Dean on transforming the town into a tourist hot spot, but Maxie wants proof of the ghosts. Horrified, Lydia summons Betelgeuse for help, but he agrees to help her only on the condition that she marry him, Betelgeuse saves the Maitlands and disposes of Maxie, his wife, and Otho, then prepares a wedding before a ghastly minister. The Maitlands intervene before the ceremony is completed, with Barbara riding a sandworm through the house to devour Betelgeuse, finally, the Deetzes and Maitlands agree to live in harmony within the house. Betelgeuse is stuck in the waiting room, there he attempts to cut in front of a witch doctor. Being Betelgeuse, however, he remains upbeat, This could be a look for me. Meanwhile, Adam, Barbara and Lydia are seen in the front room of the dancing to Harry Belafontes Jump In The Line to celebrate Lydia getting an A on her math test at school. The financial success of Pee-wees Big Adventure meant that Burton was considered a bankable director, while Warner Bros. was willing to pay for the scripts development, they were less willing to green-light Batman

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Big (film)
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Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Penny Marshall, and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish to be big and is then aged to adulthood overnight. The film also stars Elizabeth Perkins, David Moscow as small Josh, John Heard, and Robert Loggia and he puts a coin into an unusual antique arcade fortune teller machine called Zoltar Speaks, and makes a wish to be big. It dispenses a card stating Your wish is granted, but Josh is spooked to see it was unplugged the entire time, the next morning, Josh has been transformed into a 30-year-old man. He tries to find the Zoltar machine, only to see an empty plaza, returning home, he tries to explain his predicament to his mother, who refuses to listen, thinking he is a stranger who kidnapped her son. Fleeing from her, he finds his best friend, Billy Kopecki. With Billys help, he learns that it take a long time to find the machine, so Josh rents a flophouse room in New York City. Josh runs into the owner, Mr. MacMillan, at FAO Schwarz. They play a duet on an electronic keyboard, performing Heart and Soul. This earns Josh a promotion to a job, getting paid to test toys as Vice President in Charge of Production. He soon attracts the attention of Susan Lawrence, a fellow McMillan executive, a romance begins to develop, to the annoyance of her ruthless former boyfriend and coworker, Paul Davenport. Josh becomes increasingly entwined in his life by spending time with her, mingling with her friends. MacMillan asks Josh to come up with proposals for a new line of toys and he is intimidated by the need to formulate the business aspects of the proposal, but Susan says she will handle the business end while he comes up with ideas. Nonetheless, he feels pressured, and longs for his old life, when he expresses doubts to her and attempts to explain that he is really a child, she interprets this as fear of commitment on his part, and dismisses his explanation. Josh learns from Billy that the Zoltar machine is now at Sea Point Park and he leaves in the middle of presenting their proposal to MacMillan and other executives. Susan also leaves, and encounters Billy, who tells her where Josh went, at the park, Josh finds the machine, unplugs it and makes a wish to become a kid again. He is then confronted by Susan, who, seeing the machine and she becomes despondent at realizing their relationship is over. He tells her she was the one thing about his life he wishes would not end. She declines, saying that being a child once was enough, after sharing an emotional goodbye with Susan, he becomes a child again

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Saturn Award
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database

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Science fiction film
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Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. The genre has existed since the years of silent cinema. The next major example in the genre was the film Metropolis - being the first feature length science fiction movie, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubricks landmark 2001, A Space Odyssey, the fiction film genre was taken more seriously. This definition suggests a continuum between empiricism and transcendentalism, with science fiction film on the side of empiricism, and horror film, however, there are numerous well-known examples of science fiction horror films, epitomized by such pictures as Frankenstein and Alien. The visual style of fiction film can be characterized by a clash between alien and familiar images. This clash is implemented when alien images become familiar, as in A Clockwork Orange, as well, familiar images become alien, as in the films Repo Man and Liquid Sky. For example, in Dr. Strangelove, the, distortion of the make the familiar images seem more alien. Finally, alien and familiar images are juxtaposed, as in The Deadly Mantis, Science fiction films appeared early in the silent film era, typically as short films shot in black and white, sometimes with colour tinting. They usually had a theme and were often intended to be humorous. In 1902, Georges Méliès released Le Voyage dans la Lune, generally considered the first science fiction film, several early films merged the science fiction and horror genres. Examples of this are Frankenstein, a adaptation of Mary Shelleys novel. Taking a more adventurous tack,20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a based on Jules Verne’s famous novel of a wondrous submarine. In the 1920s, European filmmakers tended to use science fiction for prediction and social commentary, as can be seen in German films such as Metropolis and Frau im Mond. In the 1930s, there were big budget science fiction films, notably Just Imagine, King Kong, Things to Come. Starting in 1936, a number of science fiction comic strips were adapted as serials, notably Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and these serials, and the comic strips they were based on, were very popular with the general public. Other notable science fiction films of the 1930s include Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Doctor X, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, F. P. The 1940s brought us Before I Hang, Black Friday, Dr. Cyclops, The Devil Commands, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Man Made Monster, It Happened Tomorrow, It Happens Every Spring and The Perfect Woman

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Fantasy film
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Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy and Sword, both categories typically employ quasi-medieval settings, wizards, magical creatures and other elements commonly associated with fantasy stories. High Fantasy films tend to feature a more richly developed fantasy world, often, they feature a hero of humble origins and a clear distinction between good and evil set against each other in an epic struggle. Many scholars cite J. R. R, to some, the term Sword and Sandal has pejorative connotations, designating a film with a low-quality script, bad acting and poor production values. Another important subgenre of films that has become more popular in recent years is contemporary fantasy. Such films feature magical effects or supernatural occurrences happening in the world of today. Fantasy films set in the afterlife, called Bangsian Fantasy, are less common, other uncommon subgenres include Historical Fantasy and Romantic Fantasy, although 2003s Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl successfully incorporated elements of both. As noted above, superhero movies and fairy tale films might each be considered subgenres of fantasy films, as a cinematic genre, fantasy has traditionally not been regarded as highly as the related genre of science fiction film. Since the late 1990s, however, the genre has gained new respectability in a way, tolkiens The Lord of the Rings and J. K. Jacksons The Lord of the Rings trilogy is due to its ambitious scope, serious tone. These pictures achieved phenomenal commercial and critical success, and the installment of the trilogy became the first fantasy film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Harry Potter series has been a financial success, has achieved critical acclaim. Following the success of ventures, Hollywood studios have greenlighted additional big-budget productions in the genre. These have included adaptations of the first, second, and third books in C. S and this is in contrast to science fiction films, which are often released during the northern hemisphere summer. The huge commercial success of these pictures may indicate a change in Hollywoods approach to fantasy film releases. Fantasy films have a history almost as old as the medium itself, however, fantasy films were relatively few and far between until the 1980s, when high-tech filmmaking techniques and increased audience interest caused the genre to flourish

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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years

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Tom Hanks
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at U. S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide, Hanks has been nominated for numerous awards during his career. In 2004, he received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2014, he received a Kennedy Center Honor and, in 2016, he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Hanks was born in Concord, California, the son of Janet Marylyn, a worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks. His mother was of Portuguese descent, while his father had English ancestry. The familys three oldest children, Sandra, Larry and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, in his childhood, his family moved often. By the age of ten, Hanks had lived in ten different houses, while Hanks family religious history was Catholic and Mormon, he has characterized himself as being a Bible-toting evangelical for several years as a teenager. In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers alike, later telling Rolling Stone magazine, I was a geek, I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. At the same time, I was the guy whod yell out funny captions during filmstrips, but I didnt get into trouble. I was always a good kid and pretty responsible. In 1965, his father married Frances Wong, a San Francisco native of Chinese descent, Frances had three children, two of whom lived with Hanks during his high school years. Hanks acted in plays, including South Pacific, while attending Skyline High School in Oakland. Hanks studied theater at Chabot College in Hayward, California, and transferred to California State University, Sacramento, Hanks told New York magazine in 1986, Acting classes looked like the best place for a guy who liked to make a lot of noise and be rather flamboyant. I spent a lot of going to plays. I wouldnt take dates with me, id just drive to a theater, buy myself a ticket, sit in the seat and read the program, and then get into the play completely. I spent a lot of time like that, seeing Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen, during his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. At Dowlings suggestion, Hanks became an intern at the festival and his internship stretched into a three-year experience that covered most aspects of theater production, including lighting, set design, and stage management, prompting Hanks to drop out of college

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Catherine Hicks
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Catherine Mary Hicks is an American television, film, and stage actress. She is known for her role as Annie Camden on the television series 7th Heaven. Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks and she is of Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, during her childhood and she was a cheerleader at Gerard Catholic High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and a member of the National Honor Society. After attending Saint Marys College, where she studied English literature and theology, while at Cornell, she was a member of the Ithaca Repertory Theater Company. After graduating from Cornell with a masters of arts degree, Hicks headed to New York in August 1976. Two weeks after arriving in New York, she landed her first major TV role as the newly recovered pediatrician Dr. Faith Coleridge on the ABC soap opera Ryans Hope and that same year, she starred as Valerie in the CBS TV movie and TV series pilot called Sparrow. When Tribute ended, Hicks moved to California and co-starred on the 1979–80 CBS sitcom, The Bad News Bears as junior high principal and psychologist. She had roles in a few TV movies, playing an escort, Annie, in ABCs Love For Rent, and as Beth, a camp counselor in CBSs 1980 film To Race the Wind, based on the Harold Krents autobiography. In 1980, Hicks beat out hundreds of actresses for the role of Marilyn Monroe in ABCs $3.5 million production, Marilyn, The Untold Story. She earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her portrayal of the legendary star, in 1981, Hicks starred in CBSs remake of Jacqueline Susanns Valley of the Dolls, as Anne Wells, an entertainment lawyer, and James Corburns protege. She made her debut in the thriller Death Valley as Peter Billingsleys mother. That same year, she starred as Sable in Better Late Than Never, the program aired on CBS from October 6,1982, sporadically into August,1983. In 1983, she played Lisa Sage and co-starred with John Schneider in CBSs romantic comedy movie Happy Endings, in Sidney Lumets film Garbo Talks, Hicks was actress Jane Mortimer. Hicks also played Bill Murrays socialite finacee, Isabel, in the remake The Razors Edge, for her work in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, Hicks received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she played Carol Heath in Francis Ford Coppolas Peggy Sue Got Married, in Like Father Like Son, Hicks played Dr. Amy Larkin. In March 1987, Hicks hosted the 59th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific, in 1988, she played businesswoman Ella Frazier in the Yugoslavian comedy Tajna manastirske rakije. Hicks co-starred with Christopher Plummer, as his daughter, Tina Boyer

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Robert Loggia
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Salvatore Robert Loggia was an American actor and director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge and he grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood, where the family spoke Italian at home. He attended New Dorp High School before going to Wagner College, later he started courses towards a degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, but later still switched to drama courses with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University. After serving in the United States Army, he married Marjorie Sloan in 1954, at age 25, he made his debut on Broadway in The Man With the Golden Arm in 1955. Although Loggia made his first film in 1956, in an appearance, it was not until he was cast as a New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca. He later starred as the proverbial cat-burglar-turned-good circus artist, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat, Cat appeared to be a success, Loggia said, Were drawing about a 30 per cent share of the audience, which NBC considers fine for a new show with new star. After NBC cancelled the series, when viewing figures failed to deliver, Loggia went into a mid-life crisis, for six years his career foundered, and his marriage fell apart. Restless and unnerved, constantly riddled with self-doubt, a meeting with Audrey OBrien was a saving grace. She helped him out of the crisis, and they later married, despite playing Frank Carver on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm in 1972, he took a new course, when he decided to begin a career in directing. He also carried on acting, and amassed many television credits in a variety of roles, including appearances on Overland Trail, Target, the Untouchables, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Combat. I. Quincy, M. E. Kojak, Hawaii Five-0, The Bionic Woman, Falcon Crest, Frasier, The Sopranos, Monk, the director Blake Edwards often cast Loggia in his films in one of the minor and supporting roles. These included Revenge of the Pink Panther, S. O. B. which was a satire about Hollywood, Loggia also acted in several widely acclaimed films such as An Officer and a Gentleman, Scarface, Prizzis Honor, and Independence Day. Eddy in David Lynchs Lost Highway, and Don Vito Leoni in David Jablins The Dons Analyst, additionally, he played violent mobster Feech La Manna in several episodes of The Sopranos. In 1998, Loggia appeared in a television commercial lampooning obscure celebrity endorsements, in it, a young boy names Loggia as someone he would trust to recommend Minute Maid orange-tangerine blend. Loggia instantly appears and endorses the drink, to which the boy exclaims, Whoa, in August 2009, Loggia appeared in one of Apples Get a Mac advertisements. The advertisement features Loggia as a personal trainer hired by PC to get him back on top of his game, on October 26,2009, TVGuide. com announced Loggia had joined the cast of the TNT series Men of a Certain Age. In 2012, Loggia portrayed Saint Peter during his imprisonment in The Apostle Peter. Loggia partnered with Canadian entrepreneur Frank DAngelo from 2013, appearing in three films, with a film in production at the time of Loggias death

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Sylvia Sidney
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Sylvia Sidney was an American actress of stage, screen and film, with a career spanning over 70 years, who first rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. Sidney, born Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, was the daughter of Rebecca, a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow and her parents divorced by 1915, and she was adopted by her stepfather, Sigmund Sidney, a dentist. Her mother became a dressmaker and renamed herself Beatrice Sidney, now using the surname Sidney, she became an actress at the age of fifteen as a way of overcoming shyness. As a student of the Theater Guilds School for Acting, Sidney appeared in several of their productions during the 1920s, in 1926, she was seen by a Hollywood talent scout and made her first film appearance later that year. During the Depression, Sidney appeared in a string of films and she appeared opposite such heavyweight screen idols as Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Fredric March, George Raft and Cary Grant. It was during this period that she developed a reputation for being difficult to work with and her career diminished somewhat during the 1940s. In 1949 exhibitors voted her box office poison, in 1952, she played the role of Fantine in Les Misérables, and her performance was widely praised and allowed her opportunities to develop as a character actress. She appeared three times on CBSs Playhouse 90 anthology series, on May 16,1957, she appeared as Lulu Morgan, mother of singer Helen Morgan in The Helen Morgan Story. Four months later, Sidney joined her former co-star Bergen again on the premiere of the short-lived NBC variety show, in 1973, Sidney received an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. As an elderly woman Sidney continued to play supporting roles, and was identifiable by her husky voice. She played Aunt Marion in Damien, Omen II and had key roles in Beetlejuice, as Juno, for which she won a Saturn Award, other stage credits included The Fourposter, Enter Laughing, and Barefoot in the Park. In 1982, Sidney was awarded The George Eastman Award by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film and she first married publisher Bennett Cerf on October 1,1935, but the couple were divorced six months later, on April 9,1936. She later married actor and acting teacher Luther Adler in 1938, by whom she had her child, a son, Jacob. Adler and Sidney divorced in 1947, during her marriage to Luther Adler she was a sister-in-law to acclaimed stage actress and drama teacher Stella Adler. On March 5,1947, she married producer and announcer Carlton Alsop. Sidney died on July 1,1999 from esophageal cancer at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City, after a career spanning more than 70 years and she died a month before her 89th birthday. Before her death, she went under chemotherapy to treat her cancer. She was cremated

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Robert Zemeckis
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Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American filmmaker and screenwriter frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects. In the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994s Forrest Gump, the films he has directed have ranged across a wide variety of genres, for both adults and families. Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Rosa and his father was Lithuanian American and his mother was Italian. Zemeckis grew up on the side of the city. He attended a Roman Catholic grade school and Fenger Academy High School, Zemeckis has said the truth was that in my family there was no art. I mean, there was no music, there were no books, the only thing I had that was inspirational, was television—and it actually was. As a child, he loved television and was fascinated by his parents 8 mm film movie camera. Starting off by filming family events like birthdays and holidays, he began producing narrative films with his friends that incorporated stop-motion work. Along with enjoying movies, Zemeckis remained an avid TV watcher and you hear so much about the problems with television, he said, but I think that it saved my life. After seeing Bonnie and Clyde with his father and being influenced by it. His parents disapproved of the idea, Zemeckis later said, But only in the sense that they were concerned, for my family and my friends and the world that I grew up in, this was the kind of dream that really was impossible. My parents would sit there and say, Dont you see where you come from and you cant be a movie director. I guess maybe some of it I felt I had to do in spite of them, Zemeckis applied only to University of Southern Californias School of Cinematic Arts, and went into the Film School on the strength of an essay and a music video based on a Beatles song. Not having heard from the university itself, Zemeckis called and was told he had rejected because of his average grades. The director gave an impassioned plea to the official on the line, promising to go to summer school and improve his studies. Arriving at USC that fall, Zemeckis encountered a program that was, in his words, the classes were difficult, with professors constantly stressing how hard the movie business was. Zemeckis remembered not being much fazed by this, citing the healthy cynicism that had been bred into him from his Chicago upbringing, while at USC, Zemeckis developed a close friendship with the writer Bob Gale, who was also a student there. Gale later recalled, The graduate students at USC had this veneer of intellectualism. So Bob and we werent interested in the French New Wave

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Christopher Young
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Christopher Young is an American music composer for both film and television. Many of his compositions are for horror films, including Hellraiser, Tales from the Hood, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Freddys Revenge, Urban Legend. Other works include Lucky You and Spider-Man 3, for which he received the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Dramatic Feature Film and he also made three cameo appearances in Spider-Man 3. Young was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2008 BMI Film, the award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey and he graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then completed his post-graduate work at North Texas State University. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles, originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmanns works he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin and he teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California

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Fred Savage
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Frederick Aaron Fred Savage is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years and he has earned several awards and nominations, such as Peoples Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. Savage was born in Highland Park, Illinois, the son of Joanne and Lewis Savage, Fred grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, before moving out to California. His younger brother is actor Ben Savage, and his sister is actress/musician Kala Savage. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Savage was educated at Brentwood School, a private co-educational day school in Brentwood, in the Westside area of Los Angeles County in California. He graduated from Stanford University in 1999, with a degree in English. Savages first screen performance was in the television show Morningstar/Eveningstar, at age 9 and he then appeared onscreen in The Boy Who Could Fly, Dinosaurs. - A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time, and several television shows, including The Twilight Zone and Crime Story before gaining national attention as the grandson in the 1987 film The Princess Bride opposite Peter Falk. At the age of thirteen he was the youngest actor ever to receive these honors and he remained on the show until it ended in 1993. During this period, he appeared in films, most notably Vice Versa. After The Wonder Years, Savage primarily did guest and supporting roles, such as the show Boy Meets World and in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember as The Mole. Savage has lent his voice to several animated projects, including Family Guy, Kim Possible, Justice League Unlimited, Oswald and his two lead roles since The Wonder Years were on the short-lived sitcoms Working and Crumbs. Savage appeared as a serial rapist on a 2003 episode of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit and he ranked at #27 on VH1s 100 Greatest Kid Stars. In July 2008, Savage guest-starred in the web series The Rascal on Crackle, in 2015, Savage returned to acting with the Fox series The Grinder. Producer Nick Stoller approached Savage about playing the role of Stewart on The Grinder, Savage was uninterested in acting at first but agreed to meet with the producers of the series because his children attended school with Stollers children. Savage eventually agreed to take on the role, in 1999, Savage began his directing career in which he helmed episodes of over a dozen television series. Savages first directing credit was on the short-lived NBC sitcom Working which also starred Savage, following Working, Savage began observing production on the Disney Channel show Even Stevens to further learn the craft of directing. Savage also learned by shadowing Amy Sherman-Palladino, Todd Holland, and his credits include Boy Meets World, Drake & Josh and Neds Declassified for Nickelodeon, as well as Thats So Raven, Hannah Montana, and Wizards of Waverly Place for Disney Channel

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Alien Nation (film)
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Alien Nation is a 1988 American buddy cop neo-noir science fiction action film directed by Graham Baker. The ensemble cast features James Caan, Mandy Patinkin and Terence Stamp, the film depicts the assimilation of the Newcomers, an alien race settling in Los Angeles, much to the initial dismay of the local population. The duo probe a criminal underworld attempting to solve a homicide, the film was a co-production between American Entertainment Partners and 20th Century Fox, which distributed it theatrically. Alien Nation explores murder, discrimination and science fiction, Alien Nation was released in the United States on October 7,1988, and grossed over $32 million worldwide, becoming a moderate financial success. The film was met with mixed critical reviews before its theatrical release and its initial popularity inaugurated the beginning of the Alien Nation media franchise. The year is 1991, one year since an unidentified flying object bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens, Los Angeles later becomes their new home. The next day, Sykes superior Captain Warner, informs his squad that they will have to work with the newly promoted Newcomer detective Sam Francisco, later, Sykes and Francisco are led to a nightclub to investigate a link in the killings with a Newcomer named Joshua Strader. However, they end up interviewing his girlfriend instead, after Strader is murdered by a criminal ring led by Newcomer businessman William Harcourt, Harcourt is in the latter stages of launching advanced plans to exploit the alien race by attempting to mass-produce and sell a drug called Jabroka. The drug was used in the past to pacify the Newcomers when they were slaves, the abnormality noticed by Francisco on the body of the Newcomer criminal earlier turns out to have been a visual sign of the drugs influence. Ultimately, Sykes and Francisco track down Harcourt, where he is negotiating a timetable for a release of the potent narcotic. The detectives attempt to foil his plans, as they are led on a car chase with Harcourt. Following a head-on collision where both parties are injured, Harcourt attempts an escape on foot, Sykes pursues and corners Harcourt onto a desolate drawbridge. Harcourt then purposely overdoses on a sample of the stimulant, as Sykes mistakenly believes Harcourt has died, Harcourt is taken away by an ambulance, but later mutates into a significantly larger and more muscular Newcomer intent on causing violence. The duo pursue Harcourt, catching up with him near a fishing pier, Sykes later ends up in a physical confrontation with Harcourt in the open sea. Harcourt dies, as his body due to the effects of direct contact with salt water. Francisco commandeers a helicopter, and rescues Sykes from the water. With the Tuggle and Newcomer murder cases solved, the authorities dismantle Harcourts illicit scheme, the agency representing the storyline asked the production staff to view it as quickly as possible due to it being submitted to other film studios as well. Both Hurd and her director of development Ellen Collett had the initial response

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The Blob (1988 film)
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A remake of the 1958 horror film of the same name, the film was theatrically released in 1988, and was a box office flop, earning $8.2 million. Despite a mixed to positive reception, praise was heavily regarding the special-effects, much like the original film, the remake has since gained a cult following and some consider the film to be one of the best remakes ever made. A meteorite crashes near Arborville, California, an elderly transient discovers, within the sphere, a giant amoeba-like organism that attaches itself to his hand. Three high school students, Brian, Meg and Paul, take him to a hospital, after Brian leaves, Paul witnesses the lower half of the transient melting from exposure to the Blob. As he calls for help, the Blob drops on top of him, while Meg tries to free him, his arm dissolves off, Meg is thrown against a wall and knocked unconscious, and the Blob oozes out of the hospital. After Brian and Meg have unsatisfactory encounters with the police, they meet at a diner where Meg tells Brian about the Blob. Brian is initially skeptical of Megs story, but is convinced otherwise when the diners handyman and it pursues them to the diners walk-in freezer, but the Blob suddenly retreats after entering the freezer. After consuming the diners owner, Fran Hewitt, the Blob reenters the sewers, Reverend Jacob Meeker, after witnessing the Blob disappearing and investigating the dark and abandoned diner, discovers and collects frozen fragments of the Blob near the open freezer door. Meg and Brian return to the station, where the dispatcher tells them Deputy Briggs is near the meteor-landing site. They discover a military led by a scientist, Dr. Meddows. Brian escapes a military van and collects his motorbike, Meg is taken to town where she learns her younger brother, Kevin, and his friend, Eddie, have sneaked into the local movie theater. The Blob enters the theater and attacks the staff and then the audience, Meg arrives as the audience is fleeing the theater, rescuing Eddie and Kevin. Brian eavesdrops on Meddows and learns that the Blob is a biological warfare experiment created during the Cold War that was launched into space because it was so dangerous. Learning that the Blob has entered the sewers, Meddows decides to trap it there, even if that means allowing Meg, Kevin, Brian is discovered listening in and evades military personnel by driving his motorcycle into the sewers. In the sewers, Meg and Kevin flee from the Blob when it emerges, Kevin escapes to the surface by scaling a pipe and squeezing through a grate. A three-man team of soldiers find Meg with the Blob and unsuccessfully attempt to kill it, Meg is saved by Brian, and they ride away on his motorcycle through a tunnel until they crash. They run into the surviving soldier of the three-man team. Brian confronts Meddows in front of the townsfolk and Deputy Briggs, after failing to convince everyone Brian is contaminated and must die, Meddows attempts to shoot Brian, but is killed by the Blob as it oozes into his chemical suit and drags him into the sewer

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Cocoon: The Return
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Cocoon, The Return is a 1988 American science fiction fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and written by Stephen McPherson. The film serves as the sequel to the 1985 film Cocoon, all of the starring actors from the first film reprised their roles in this film, although Brian Dennehy only appears in one scene at the end of the film. Unlike its predecessor, the film was neither a commercial nor a success at the time of release. Five years after they left, the Antareans return to Earth to rescue the cocoons that were left behind, before they can be retrieved, one of the cocoons is discovered by a science research team and taken to a secure laboratory for testing. Joe learns that his leukemia has returned, but he knows it will be cured again as soon as he, when Alma is hit by a car while saving a child, Joe gives up the last of his lifeforce, saving her life but sacrificing his. Before dying, he tells Alma to take the job and that he loves her, Art and Bess learn that Bess is pregnant, and decide to raise the child on Anterea so they will live long enough to see him grow up. Ben and Mary reconnect with their family and friends, including Bernie who is shown to have love with Ruby. And although a lovelorn Jack once again attempts to woo Kitty, she grants him a vision of his future, showing him children. The next night, before Ben, Mary, Art and Bess leave to meet the Antareans, Art, Kitty, Ben and his grandson David then rescue the Antarean from the Oceanographic Institute. Sara, one of the scientists working at the institute becomes aware of the plans to hand the alien over to the military. Unhappy about this, when she discovers the rescuers she allows them to escape, back at port after he has said his goodbyes to Ben, Mary and David, Jack is approached by Sara asking if he knows of a place where she could get some gas. They walk and talk for a bit, where Sara tells him she just quit her job and he eventually notices the small heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. The score to Cocoon, The Return was composed and conducted by James Horner who had scored Cocoon, the score mostly consisted of recycled themes and material from the first film. The soundtrack was released on 23 November 1988 through Varèse Sarabande, returning Home Taking Bernie to the Beach Joes Gift Remembrances/The Break-In Basketball Swing Jacks Future Growing Old Good Friend Rescue/The Ascension The film had a generally negative reception. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the two and a half out of four stars saying Yes, the performances are wonderful, and, yes. For someone who has seen Cocoon, the sequel gives you the opportunity to see everybody saying goodbye for the second time, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 36% positive reviews based on 36 reviews. The film brought $25 million worldwide, far less than the first films $85 million worldwide gross, Cocoon, The Return at the Internet Movie Database Cocoon, The Return at Box Office Mojo Cocoon, The Return at Rotten Tomatoes

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My Stepmother Is an Alien
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Celeste is an alien sent on a secret mission to Earth and Steven Mills is a widowed scientist who is working on different ways to send radio waves into deep space. An accident causes a disruption of gravity on Celestes home world and she is sent to investigate who could affect gravity and how it was done, believing it was an attack. She is aided by a device resembling a tentacle with an eye. The bag is able to create any object, such as diamonds, Celestes inexperience almost results in her exposing herself as alien when she struggles with simple tasks like trying to kiss for the first time or cooking. However, she cannot convince her father that something is unusual about Celeste. Ron also has his doubts about Celeste, but more on the basis that he feels his brother is doing too much too soon by asking to marry Celeste only a few days after they first met, Celeste encounters new experiences such as sneezing, sexual intercourse, and love. When finally confronted about being an extraterrestrial by Jessie, Celeste admits her home world is without emotion. Celeste plans to once she discovers the truth, but is put in a quandary by Jessie. After Jessie argues with her dad, she runs away and is hit by a car. This reveals to Steven that Celeste is indeed an alien and that she has fallen in love with him and accepted Jessie as her own daughter. When the leaders of Celestes home world report in, they ask her to destroy the planet Earth until Steven and she manage to convince them it was not an act of aggression, but an accident. They accept the explanation on the basis that gravity is returning to normal on their planet and give their blessing for Celeste to be with Steven. Initially, however, they demand that Celeste return to human culture to them. The ambassadorship is accepted by Ron, who departs for Celestes world in a spaceship served by several flight attendants, shelley Long was originally cast as Celeste, but dropped out due to unknown circumstances. The film went into principal photography on 29 February 1988, as well as wrapped in May of that year, some location shooting took place in Thousand Oaks, California. The film was released in the United States on 9 December 1988, and was marketed with the tagline, A million lightyears from home, shes found a husband, a stepdaughter and a dog. The film gained negative reviews, receiving a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes from a sample of 16 critics, the film was released on December 9,1988 and opened at #7, grossing $2,066,980 in the opening weekend. It went on to gross $13,854,000 in the United States, the soundtrack album was released by Polydor Records

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Short Circuit 2
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Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 American science fiction comedy film, the sequel to the 1986 film Short Circuit. It was directed by Kenneth Johnson, and starred Fisher Stevens as Ben Jahveri, Michael McKean as Fred Ritter, Cynthia Gibb as Sandy Banatoni, filming took place in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Benjamin Jahrvi is peddling sophisticated toy robots that he makes by hand on the corners of New York City. One robot wanders away from his stand and makes its way into the office of Sandy Banatoni, Sandy tracks Ben down and orders 1,000 of his toys. Overhearing this offer is con artist Fred Ritter, who smooth-talks his way into becoming Bens business partner in the deal, the thieves attack Ben and Fred and destroy their equipment, preventing them from completing Sandys order. However, Bens friends Stephanie and Newton have sent Johnny 5, when the thieves return, Johnny defends against them, then sets up self-defense mechanisms should they try to break in. Johnny sets to work mass-producing the toys to meet Sandys deadline and he runs afoul of many New Yorkers, who are rude and unfriendly. However, he befriends one man, Oscar Baldwin, who works at the bank across the street from Ben, Fred, having learned that Johnny is worth $11 million, tries to sell the robot. Discovering this, Johnny escapes into the city, is taken into custody by the police, and is placed in the goods warehouse. Johnny uses his abilities to help Ben court Sandy. With time running out before the Vanderveer Collection is moved from the bank and it is revealed that Oscar is the mastermind of the heist, and he tricks Johnny into finishing the tunnel leading to the vault. Ben and Fred get Sandy to save them, using polyphonic renditions of songs that Ben learned on his date with her as clues to their location, having discovered the Vanderveer Collection, Johnny deduces Oscars true intentions but is attacked by the thieves and is severely damaged. Fred attempts to him by breaking into a Radio Shack. Johnny then locates Oscar and traps his accomplices, however, Oscar flees and steals a boat. Johnny uses a crane to capture Oscar, who is deprived of the stolen collection. After Johnnys main power supply runs dry, Ben keeps him alive by using a defibrillator, later scenes show Johnny as a celebrity and Sandy, Ben, and Fred establishing a large business called Input Incorporated, using Johnny 5 as the mascot. The film concludes with Ben and Johnny becoming US citizens, asked about how he feels by reporters, Johnny, now painted gold, jumps into the air, shouting that he feels, Alive. The film received mixed reviews at the time of release

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They Live
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They Live is a 1988 American satirical science fiction horror film written and directed by John Carpenter. The film stars Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster and they Live is based on the 1963 short story, Eight OClock in the Morning by Ray Nelson. At release it was one in the box office, but sales soon suffered. They Live has since become a cult film, drifter John Nada finds construction work in Los Angeles and befriends fellow construction worker Frank Armitage, who leads him to a local shantytown soup kitchen. Nada discovers the church is a front. The choir heard outside is a recording and the building is filled with scientific equipment. Nada finds a box hidden in the wall, but flees when the preacher notices him and that night, the police attack and bulldoze the shantytown. Nada returns in the morning to find the empty. He takes one of the boxes and in an alley, he opens the box, taking a pair, he hides the box in a garbage can. They also make clear many people in positions of wealth. In a grocery store, Nada confronts an alien woman who then speaks into her wristwatch, two alien police officers try to apprehend Nada, but he kills them and takes their guns. He goes on a spree, killing several aliens that he encounters in a nearby bank. He sees one vanish using its wristwatch, Nada escapes, destroying a small, flying saucer-like alien surveillance drone and taking a Cable 54 assistant director named Holly Thompson hostage. At her luxurious home, Nada tries to convince her of the truth. He also begins suffering migraine headaches as a result of using the glasses, Holly finds his story absurd, and catching him unaware, knocks him through a window and calls the police. Nada tumbles down a hillside and escapes, leaving his sunglasses behind. Now a fugitive, Nada returns to the alley where he finds the garbage can that held the other glasses is empty, however, he retrieves the box from a nearby garbage truck. Frank meets Nada, who is now a fugitive, to give him his paycheck

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Scrooged
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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman, the screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael ODonoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman, the film stars Bill Murray, with Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, Alfre Woodard, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, John Houseman, and Robert Mitchum in supporting roles. Murrays brothers Brian, John, and Joel also appear in the film, the film was marketed with references to Ghostbusters which had been a great success four years earlier. In the United States, the tagline was, Bill Murray is back among the ghosts, only this time, Frank Cross is an inconsiderate and arrogant executive in the IBC television network headquarters. He is preparing an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, forcing the staff, including his assistant Grace Cooley. Meanwhile, Franks boss Preston Rhinelander has hired Brice Cummings, who is transparently after Franks job, hours before the show starts, Frank is visited by the ghost of his mentor Lew Hayward, who announces that three ghosts will appear over the course of the night. Lew also causes Franks phone to call Claire Phillips, Franks true love from years ago, Claire comes to visit Frank, but he is too busy to talk to her. She leaves him the address of the shelter where she works. The Ghost of Christmas Past appears as a driver who takes Frank back to his childhood. His father Earl is an unloving meatpacking foreman who gives him veal for Christmas, Franks only solace is in the world of television, foreshadowing his eventual career path. Returned to the present, Frank goes to the shelter to apologize to Claire. However, when shelter workers pester Claire, Frank reverts to his old self, and bluntly tells Claire she is letting life pass her by, back at IBC, Frank watches final preparations before the live show. The Ghost of Christmas Present appears as a cute, yet volatile pixie who goes by the motto and she shows Frank how Grace struggles with the long hours he puts her through, without being able to care for her family. Her son Calvin has been mute since the death of his five years prior. The Ghost also shows him how James is enjoying Christmas with his wife and friends, James still invites Frank every year, Frank struggles to escape through a boarded-up door, but when he forces the door he crashes through the IBC set during the final rehearsal. Preston has put Brice in charge, fearing that Frank is having a mental breakdown, Frank returns to his office where he is repeatedly shot at by a furious Eliot, whose life he has ruined. Frank dives into an elevator, and finds the Ghost of Christmas Future, appearing as a towering cloaked skeleton with tortured souls trapped inside his ribcage and a TV for a head, waiting for him

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Willow (film)
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Lucas conceived the idea for the film in 1972, approaching Howard to direct during the post-production phase of Cocoon in 1985. Bob Dolman was brought in to write the screenplay, coming up with seven drafts before finishing in late 1986 and it was then set up at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and principal photography began in April 1987, finishing the following October. The majority of filming took place at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, as well as Wales, Industrial Light & Magic created the visual effects sequences, which led to a revolutionary breakthrough with digital morphing technology. The film was released in 1988 to mixed reviews from critics, a prophecy states that a female child with a special birthmark will herald the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women in her realm to prevent fulfilment of the prophecy, when the prophesied child Elora Danan is born, the mother begs the midwife to hide the infant and smuggle her to safety. The midwife reluctantly accepts and leaves Nockmaar castle unnoticed, the mother is executed, the midwife is hunted down and eventually found. Knowing she cannot escape, she sets the baby on a raft of grass. The midwife is killed by Nockmaar hounds, Bavmorda, furious about the escape, summons her daughter Sorsha and her armys commander, General Kael to find the baby. The baby drifts downriver to a village of the Nelwyn, during a town festival, the village is attacked by a Nockmaar hound which is quickly killed by the village warriors. The High Aldwin, the sorcerer, learns about the baby and selects Willow, due to his devotion to the child. At a crossroads, they find a human warrior named Madmartigan trapped in a crows cage, the rest of the party want to give the baby to Madmartigan and go home immediately, but Willow and his friend Meegosh refuse, so the others leave. Later on, the baby is stolen by a group of brownies, Willow sends Meegosh home, and two of the brownies, Franjean and Rool, are instructed to guide Willow to the sorceress Fin Raziel. The three of them later encounter Madmartigan at a tavern, where he is disguised as a woman to hide from Lug, a cuckolded husband, who then flirts with the disguised Madmartigan. Sorsha arrives and reveals his identity, and in the brawl started by the furious Lug upon the realisation that Madmartigan is not a woman, Willow, Madmartigan. Madmartigan guides them to a lake where Raziel lives, but departs again as they cross it, Raziel has been transformed into a possum by Bavmorda, and Willow and his party return with her to shore. They are captured by Sorsha, who already has Madmartigan in custody, Willow tries to restore Raziel, but turns her into a rook instead. Madmartigan is dosed with love dust by the brownies and declares his love for Sorsha. The prisoners escape and reach a village at the foot of a mountain, where they again encounter Airk, Madmartigan proclaims his loyalty to the Nelwyn and promises to protect Willow and Elora

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Without a Clue
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Without a Clue is a 1988 British comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley. Sherlock Holmes is a character created by Dr. John Watson as the central character in a series of short stories published in Strand Magazine. Although he doesnt secure the job, Watson decides to satisfy public demand to see Holmes in person by hiring unemployed actor Reginald Kincaid to play the part of the fictional detective. Continuing to investigate cases, now with Kincaid as Holmes by his side, Kincaid must rely on direction from Watson, memorizing the doctors exacting, detailed instructions every step of the way. After a major case at a museum, Kincaid oversteps his boundaries with Watson, Watson wants to write the character off and tries to start a new series about The Crime Doctor with Watson himself being recognized as the great detective. The Strands editor, Norman Greenhough is quite cold to the idea, with a new crime, Watson finds he is unable to get information on his own, only when he mentions Holmes does he get anywhere. As the crime becomes a case, the British government seeks the aid of Sherlock Holmes and will accept no one else. The mystery involves the Bank of England £5 banknote printing plates that have stolen, with the printing supervisor, Peter Giles. With the counterfeiting of these £5 notes, the collapse of the British Empires economy would be inevitable, scotland Yards Inspector Lestrade is jealous of Sherlock Holmes. He takes every opportunity to spy on Holmes and Watson and to steal their ideas, Watson and Kincaid discover that Professor Moriarty is the mastermind behind the scheme. Watson is apparently killed, forcing Kincaid to solve the case on his own, the two work together to free both Giles men and defeat Moriarty for good. The film is one of several spoofs that have made of the canonical Sherlock Holmes. This particular spoof has three features, courtesy of writers Gary Murphy and Larry Strawther, two devoted Sherlockians. Firstly the main characters have been reversed, with a bumbling Holmes and genius detective Watson replacing the usual bumbling Watson and genius detective Holmes. Secondly, in the film Watson tires of his creation, Holmes, and tries unsuccessfully to terminate his role. This mirrors the situation of the author Conan Doyle, who tired of his fictional creation Holmes. This is a premise, but it is not enough. Without a Clue at the Internet Movie Database Without a Clue - Summary

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Child's Play (1988 film)
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Childs Play is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed by Tom Holland and written by Holland, Don Mancini, and John Lafia. It is the first film in the Childs Play franchise and the first installment to feature the character Chucky and it stars Catherine Hicks, Dinah Manoff, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif. Hicks plays a mother who gives her son a doll for his birthday. The film was released on November 9,1988, and grossed more than $44 million against a budget of $9 million. Along with the film gaining a following, the box office success spawned a franchise consisting of five sequels. Childs Play was the film in the series released by MGM/UA, as the rights to the series were sold to Universal Studios in 1990. On the night of November 9,1988, serial killer, after his accomplice Eddie manages to escape, he is left to fend for himself. After he is shot in a toy shop by Chicago homicide detective Mike Norris. This causes lightning to strike inside the shop, which explodes, after this, Mike, who survives the explosion, finds Charles body. The next day, a widow named Karen Barclay purchases the same doll for her six-year-old son Andy from a peddler and that night, Karens co-worker Maggie Peterson babysits Andy. After putting Andy to bed, Maggie is hit in the face with a hammer, Maggie had stopped Chucky from getting live updates on his former accomplice Eddie Caputo, who abandoned Charles when he transferred his soul. As a result, the search the apartment. Detective Norris deems Andy a suspect, much to the annoyance of Karen, who orders Mike, the next morning, Chucky orders Andy to skip school and take the train downtown. While Andy is urinating, Chucky sneaks into Eddies lair, turning off a stoves pilot light, Eddie is killed in the explosion. Andy, once again a suspect, is placed in a hospital by Dr. Ardmore until further notice. That night, Karen discovers that Chuckys batteries were never inserted, while she is inspecting the doll, Chucky comes to life, bites her hand, and escapes. She then finds Mike at the station and shows him the wound that Chucky made. He does not believe her and leaves, after almost being killed by Chucky in his car, Mike finally agrees to help Karen

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Dead Ringers (film)
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Dead Ringers is a 1988 Canadian-American psychological body horror film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. David Cronenberg directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider and their script was based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, a highly fictionalized version of the Marcus story. Elliot and Beverly Mantle are identical twins and gynecologists who jointly operate a successful clinical practice in Toronto that specializes in the treatment of female fertility problems. Elliot, the confident and cynical of the two, seduces women who come to the Mantle Clinic. When he tires of them, the women are passed on to the shy and passive Beverly, an actress, Claire Niveau, comes to the clinic for her infertility. It turns out that Claire has a trifurcated cervix, which means she probably will not be able to have children, Elliot seduces Claire and then urges Beverly to sleep with her. However, Beverly becomes emotionally attached to Claire, and this upsets the equilibrium between the twins, Beverly also begins sharing Claires abuse of prescription drugs, which he abets through his doctors authority. Eventually, Claire leaves town to work on another film and this sends Beverly into clinical depression, more prescription drug abuse, and paranoid delusions about mutant women with abnormal genitalia. Beverly seeks out metallurgical artist Anders Wolleck and commissions a set of bizarre gynecological instruments for operating on these mutant women, after Beverly assaults a patient during surgery with one of Wollecks tools, both brothers are immediately suspended from practice and put on administrative leave by the hospital board. With their medical career now ruined, Elliot locks Beverly into the clinic and tries to him up. When Claire returns, Beverly leaves the clinic to be with her, after recovering his sobriety, he is concerned about his brother, and goes back to the clinic. There he finds the clinic in a shambles and Elliot despondent and their positions are reversed as Beverly cares for Elliot. Drugged and despairing, they celebrate their birthday and Elliot volunteers to be killed. Beverly disembowels Elliot on a couch with the same claw-like instrument of Wollecks that he had used to assault his patient in the operating room. Shortly after, Beverly pulls himself together, leaves the clinic, when she asks, Who is this. Beverly leaves the payphone, walks back into the clinic and dies in Elliots dead arms and this movie marked the screen debut of actress Jill Hennessy, both she and her real life twin sister Jacqueline play prostitutes in one scene of the film. Jill later followed this up by her role as Claire Kincaid on the TV show Law & Order. Initially, Irons had two dressing rooms and two separate wardrobes which he would use depending on which character he was playing at the time

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
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Halloween 4, The Return of Michael Myers is a 1988 American slasher film and the fourth installment in the Halloween film series. Little and written by Alan B, McElroy, it focuses on Michael Myers returning home to kill his niece Jamie Lloyd, the daughter of Laurie Strode, with Dr. Sam Loomis once more pursuing him. As the title suggests, this marks the return of Michael Myers after being absent in the previous installment. Halloween 4 was originally intended to be a ghost story, however, due to the financial performance of the third film. Four more sequels followed, released in 1989,1995,1998 and 2002 before the series was rebooted in 2007, on October 30,1988, a comatose Michael Myers is transferred to Smiths Grove Sanitarium by ambulance. En route, Michael awakens upon hearing he has a niece, kills the ambulance personnel, Dr. Sam Loomis learns of Michaels escape and gives chase. He follows Michael to a gas station, where he has killed a mechanic for his clothes, Michael then escapes in a tow truck and causes an explosion, destroying Loomiss car in the process. Loomis is then forced to catch a ride to Haddonfield, meanwhile, Jamie Lloyd, the daughter of Laurie Strode and Michaels niece, is living in Haddonfield with her foster family, Richard and Darlene Carruthers, and their teenage daughter, Rachel. Jamie knows about Michael, but she is unaware he is the man she has been having nightmares about. Richard and Darlene head out for the night and leave Rachel to babysit her, after school, Rachel takes Jamie to buy ice cream and a Halloween costume. At that point, Michael has already arrived in Haddonfield, and that night, as Rachel takes Jamie trick-or-treating, Michael goes to the electrical substation and disables it by killing a worker, plunging the town into darkness. Meanwhile, Loomis arrives in Haddonfield and warns Sheriff Ben Meeker that Michael has returned, Michael attacks a police station and kills all of the officers. A lynch mob is formed by the men to kill Michael. Rachel discovers Brady cheating on her with Sheriff Meekers daughter Kelly, after being chased by Michael, Rachel reunites with Jamie. Meeker and Loomis arrive and take the girls to Meekers house with Brady, Kelly, and they barricade the house, and Loomis departs to look for Michael. With Meeker in the basement awaiting the arrival of the police, Michael sneaks in and kills the deputy. Discovering the bodies, Rachel, Jamie, and Brady realize they are trapped in the house, Rachel and Jamie flee to the attic when Michael appears, but Brady stays to fend him off, only to be choked to death. The girls climb through a window onto the roof and Jamie is lowered down safely, pursued by Michael, Jamie runs down the street and finds Loomis

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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
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Hellbound, Hellraiser II is a 1988 British-American body horror film directed by Tony Randel and starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham and Doug Bradley. The film is the entry in the Hellraiser saga and draws heavily upon its precursor. Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the film, wrote the story and was the sequels executive producer. We see the birth of Pinhead, as a British military officer, Elliott Spencer, uses the Lament Configuration, the doorway to the world of the Cenobites, and becomes a Cenobite. Kirsty Cotton has been admitted to a hospital, still haunted by visions of the unspeakable horror that destroyed her family. Despite her frantic urging, MacRae is the one who seems to believe her. However, it is revealed that the obsessive Dr. Channard has been searching for the Lament Configuration for years. After hearing Kirstys story, he has the mattress brought to his home, the resulting blood frees Julia from the Cenobite dimension, as it did with Frank in the first film, though Julias physical form is immediately whole, only lacking skin due to the amount of blood. Meanwhile, Kirsty is awakened in her room to a vision of her father and this is witnessed by MacRae, who had snuck inside Dr. Channards house to investigate Kirstys claims. He returns to Kirsty to tell her, and the two decide to return to Dr. Channards house, so Kirsty can attempt to save her father who she believes is still trapped in Hell. They also decide to bring a patient named Tiffany, whom Kirsty has befriended. Tiffany, who hasnt spoken for years, demonstrates an aptitude for puzzles. Meanwhile, Dr. Channard, seduced by Julia, has brought more mentally ill patients to his home for her to feed on. When Kirsty and the others arrive at Channards home, MacRae heads to the attic, Julia, her skin almost completely regenerated, appears and kills him, consuming his essence and completing her skin regeneration. Kirsty hears the commotion and rushes up to the attic, enraged, she attacks Julia, but is knocked unconscious. Using Tiffany as a proxy, Channard and Julia unlock the Lament Configuration puzzle box and enter the world of Pinhead, here it is learned that the act of opening the Lament Configuration is not in and of itself reason to be targeted by the Cenobites. As Pinhead states, stopping his fellow Cenobites from attacking Tiffany, it is not hands that call them, thus, it was Channard´s desire who made him use Tiffany to open the box and, because of this, he is the Cenobites´ target. Julia calls Leviathan the god of flesh, hunger, and desire. the Lord of the Labyrinth

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master is a 1988 American slasher film and the fourth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, stars Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox and it is the sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Dream Warriors and is followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street 5, The Dream Child. The film was released on August 19,1988, to mixed reviews, grossing over $49.3 million in the US. Since the events of the film, Kristen, Kincaid. However, Kristen believes Freddy is coming back and summons Joey and Kincaid into her dreams and that night, Kristen stays awake to keep from dreaming, but Kincaid falls asleep and awakens in a junkyard, where Freddy is accidentally resurrected. Kincaid tries to fight off Freddy, but Freddy kills him and he then tricks Joey into thinking a model is swimming in his waterbed before attacking him. At school, Kristen panics when she notices Joey and Kincaid are missing and is knocked out and she is nearly attacked by Freddy when the school nurse wakes her up. She later tells Rick, Alice, and Alices crush Dan Jordan about Freddy, at dinner, Kristen notices her mother Elaine had slipped her sleeping pills, and she falls asleep. In her dream, Freddy overcomes Kristens attempts to repel him, being the last of the Elm Street children, Freddy goads Kristen into calling on one of her friends, so that his fun can begin anew. She calls Alice into her dream, and Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into his boiler, waking up and sensing something wrong, Alice takes Rick to Kristens house, only to see her burning to death in her bedroom. Later, Alice falls asleep during class and inadvertently brings Sheila into her dream, Freddy kills Sheila and makes it look like an asthma attack. Rick starts to believe Alice, but the day, he has a dream and is killed. With each death, Alice begins to change, gaining the abilities and personalities of her lost friends and she plans with Debbie and Dan to fight and kill Freddy together, but when her father Dennis keeps her in, Alice falls asleep. Through her, Freddy selects and stalks Debbie, transforming her into a cockroach, using Debbies temper, Alice tries to ram Freddy but collides with a tree in reality. As Dan is rushed into surgery, Alice returns home and readies herself to join him, Alice rescues Dan, and the two find themselves in an old church in their dream. Dans injuries in the dream prompt his surgeons to wake him up and he has the upper hand due to his experience, but she uses her friends dream powers against him. When he is about to be victorious, she remembers a nursery rhyme called The Dream Master and forces Freddy to face his own reflection, the strain tears Freddy apart, releasing all of Alices friends spirits and leaving him a hollow husk. Months later, Dan and Alice have begun dating, and as they approach a fountain, for a moment, Alice sees Freddys reflection in the water, but she ignores it

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Waxwork (film)
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Waxwork is a 1988 American horror comedy film written and directed by Anthony Hickox and starring Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, David Warner, Dana Ashbrook, and Patrick Macnee. There, they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain characters from the horror genre. Tony and China unintentionally enter two separate worlds, as depicted by the waxwork displays, by crossing the exhibition barrier rope. Tony is at a cabin where a werewolf attacks him, a hunter and his son arrive and try to kill the werewolf. The son fails and is torn in two, while the hunter shoots the werewolf, then shoots Tony as he begins to transform into a werewolf, China is sent to a Gothic castle where vampires attack her, and Count Dracula turns her into a vampire. Two of the students, Mark and Sarah, leave the waxwork unscathed. Later, Jonathan, a jock, arrives at the wax museum looking for China. Mark goes to a pair of investigating police detectives and he and Inspector Roberts meet Lincoln as he lets Roberts investigate the waxworks. As Mark and Roberts leave the museum, Mark recognizes Lincoln, later, Robertss partner sneaks into the museum, and gets his neck broken by Junior, a tall butler Lincoln scolds for killing the partner. Providing all eighteen with a victim would bring about the end of the world. On the advice of Sir Wilfred, Mark and Sarah enter the museum at night. However, Sarah is lured into the display of the Marquis de Sade, Mark is approached by a horde of zombies, but finds that if he does not believe in the monsters, then they do not exist and cannot harm him. Mark finds his way out of the display and into the Marquis de Sade exhibit, despite Mark and Sarahs attempts to escape, Junior and Lincoln grab Mark and Sarah, pulling them out of sight as Gemma and James return. Jenkins consoles Mark by saying the China-vampire he killed wasnt his friend, Mark duels with the Marquis de Sade, who is finally killed by Sarah with an axe. The reunited couple is confronted by Lincoln, who dies getting shot by Sir Wilfred, often cited as the first self-referential horror film before Scream and such, the film was given a limited release in the United States by Vestron Pictures in June 1988. It grossed $808,114 at the box office and it was released by Vestron Video the same year on VHS in both R-rated and Unrated editions and went on to sell over 150,000 units. The films budget was $1.5 million, the film was released on DVD in 2003 by Artisan Entertainment as a double feature with the sequel Waxwork II, Lost in Time and again in 2012 as part of an 8 horror film collection DVD. Lionsgate released the film on Blu-ray for the first time along with its sequel, Waxwork II, Lost in Time, on October 18,2016, critical reception for Waxwork has been mixed

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Vice Versa (1988 film)
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Vice Versa is a 1988 American comedy film starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. It is the screen adaptation of the 1882 novel of the same name by F. Anstey. Three previous adaptations were released in the UK in 1916,1937 and 1948, preceded in 1987 by Like Father Like Son, it was released three months before a similar age-changing 1980s comedy, Big. In Thailand, a pair of thieves steal an ancient skull from a Buddhist monastery, Marshall Seymour is Vice President of a Chicago department store, in charge of buying. He is divorced and has a son named Charlie whom he has time for. He, and his girlfriend Sam are on a trip to Thailand to purchase exotic merchandise, at the same time, an art thief named Turk tries to purchase the skull but has to find a way to smuggle it out of the country. He puts it one of Marshalls purchases, so that he. When Marshall returns, he takes Charlie for a few days while his mother, Robyn, tensions run high in the family since Charlie cant understand why his father cant be more involved in his life. While Charlie is holding the skull, they get into an argument about how they wish they could be in each others bodies. It is revealed that the skull possesses magical powers, and after they express a wish and touch the skull, Charlie grows up into his fathers body. One night, Charlie goes out with Sam and takes her to see the band, Malice, which Marshall had promised to take him to. The date helps to improve Marshalls relationship with Sam, Marshall and Charlie go to the museum and talk with Professor Kerschner, who explains the true nature of the skull and wishes to show it to a lama before giving it back to them. Robyn comes home earlier than expected and is furious when she sees Charlie drinking, after failing to get the skull back by asking nicely, the thieves embark on a mission to steal it. Charlie learns from Marshalls boss, Avery, that he has called a meeting to pull the plug on Marshalls business. He picks up Marshall from school and, after purchasing a device that allow them to communicate with each other, Marshall listens in on the boardroom meeting. However, Turk ends up kidnapping Marshall, leaving Charlie to fend for himself in the boardroom, no longer able to speak eloquently, he stands up and lashes out in his fathers defense before leaving the meeting. With Turk and Lillian holding Marshall for ransom, Charlie tries to get the back from the lama. During this time, Marshall tries to explain to the thieves that he is not himself, Turk seriously considers what Marshall is saying, but Lillian dismisses the story as a ploy

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Warwick Davis
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Davis also starred as a fictionalised version of himself in the sitcom Lifes Too Short, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, the son of Susan J. and Ashley Davis and he was educated at Chinthurst School and later the City of London Freemens School. Davis was born with Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare form of dwarfism. When Davis was 11, his grandmother heard a radio advert calling for people who were 4 feet tall or shorter to be in Return of the Jedi, to Davis, who was a fan of the Star Wars films, it was a dream come true. During the filming of Return of the Jedi, Mark Hamill bought Davis every Star Wars figure he did not have, Davis based his Ewok movements on his dog, who would tilt his head from side to side whenever he saw something strange. The unreleased film was a look at his decision to become an actor and act in the film. Davis reprised his role as Wicket in the ABC made-for-TV films Caravan of Courage, An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks, The Battle for Endor. In 1987, Davis was called to Elstree Studios in London to meet with Ron Howard and George Lucas to discuss a new project called Willow. Willow was his first opportunity to act with his face visible and he co-starred with Val Kilmer in the film, which received a Royal Premiere before the Prince and Princess of Wales. In 1993, he played the villainous Irish goblin in Leprechaun, Davis played the role of Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter films. Davis played a white-moustached Flitwick in the first two films, and then an unnamed chorus conductor for the third instalment of the series. In the fourth film, Flitwick is younger looking, with short, brown hair, in addition to playing Flitwick, Davis played the role of the goblin Griphook in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, despite the role being played previously by fellow dwarf actor Verne Troyer. In 2004, Davis played the character Plates in the indie film Skinned Deep, in 2006, Davis appeared, alongside fellow Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, in an episode of BBCs comedy series Extras as a satirical version of himself. Davis starred in the version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In December 2006, Davis starred in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Opera House, Manchester, and again in 2007–08 at the New Wimbledon Theatre. Davis appeared in The Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian, in which he played Nikabrik the Dwarf and he also appeared as a contestant on the 2007 series of Children in Need reality show Celebrity Scissorhands. Davis starred as a version of himself in Lifes Too Short, written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. In December 2012, Davis returned to New Wimbledon Theatre to reprise his role in Snow White, in 2014, Davis hosted a factual series for ITV called Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis

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Lukas Haas
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Lukas Daniel Haas is an American actor and musician. His acting career has spanned three decades, during which he has appeared in more than 50 feature films and a number of television shows, Haas was born in West Hollywood, California, the son of Berthold Haas, an artist, and Emily Tracy, an author. His mother is a native of Texas, and his father emigrated from Germany and he has two brothers, twins Simon Jakoway Haas and Nikolai Johannes Haas, both designers. Haas was discovered at the age of five in his kindergarten by casting director Margery Simkin and his first screen role was as a child in the 1983 nuclear holocaust film Testament. He became more known in 1985 when, at the age of eight. His performance as an Amish boy who is the witness to a police officers murder was well received by critics. Haas followed this with roles in such as Lady in White. In 1989, he appeared in the film Music Box, as the 12-year-old son of Jessica Langes character, for this role he was nominated for the Young Artist Award. He also starred in the films Alan and Naomi and Rambling Rose, on stage in 1988, he performed in Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center in New York City. He went on to appear in Everyone Says I Love You, Mars Attacks. and his work in the 2000s includes Brick, Last Days, and While She Was Out. In March 2010, Haas was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame, recently he appeared in Red Riding Hood, Contraband and Christopher Nolans Inception. He had a role on the 2012 television series Touch, during 2014 he co-starred also in the horror film Dark Was the Night. Haas is the drummer and pianist for The Rogues, in 2008, he released a solo EP. He appeared in the videos for OutKasts Roses, My Chemical Romances Welcome to the Black Parade, UGKs International Players Anthem, Death Cab For Cuties Cath…. On February 25,2011, the announced that Haas had released a musical collaboration with Isabel Lucas called Made For You. The recorded and video clip were filmed in Lukas LA studio, the Moving Picture Boy, An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell,1996, p.398. Media related to Lukas Haas at Wikimedia Commons Lukas Haas at the Internet Movie Database Lukas Haas on Myspace

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Corey Haim
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Corey Ian Haim was a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films, such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphys Romance, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream and his best-known role was alongside Corey Feldman in The Lost Boys, which made Haim a household name. Known as The Two Coreys, the duo became 1980s icons and appeared together in seven movies, Haims early success led to money and fame. He had difficulties breaking away from his experience as a teen actor and he died of pneumonia on March 10,2010. Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Judy, an Israeli-born data processor, and Bernie Haim, when Haim was 11, his parents divorced after 18 years of marriage. He had a sister, Carol, and a younger half-brother, Daniel Lee. Not particularly interested in acting, Haim participated in activities, such as ice hockey, playing music on his keyboard. His skills on the ice led to his being scouted for the AA Thunderbirds hockey team, Haims time at North Yorks Zion Heights Junior High lasted until grade eight, by which point he had begun to make a name for himself as a child actor. Haim broke into acting at the age of ten, playing the role of Larry in the Canadian childrens educational comedy television series The Edison Twins, Haims first day of shooting was with Weller, and he went up to compliment the older actor on his performance. Weller collared Haim, throwing him up against a wall to him not to speak to him after a take. Haim later admitted that he was terrified by the experience, Weller later apologized to Haim for the incident and attributed it to method acting, as he was trying to stay in character for the villainous role he was playing. Parker remembered Haims staying over many times with her and her then boyfriend Downey Jr. who taught him how to apply hair mousse, saying, He was naturally gifted, and Robert said, youre comin to live with me. In 1985, Haim appeared in roles in Secret Admirer and Murphys Romance, alongside Sally Field. While rehearsing on a Montreal street, Minnelli taught Haim how to walk like someone with muscular dystrophy, following the shoot, Haim decided he would prefer to play boyfriends rather than sons. At the time, Haims father was acting as his manager, producer Stanley Jaffe approached him to remark on Haims gifts, and recommended that he get an agent in Los Angeles. Haim turned 14 on the set in Chicago, and fell in love with Green, not realizing she was 18, he asked her out in an elevator. Haims unrequited love for Green helped inspire his performance, with the dynamics between them mirrored on-screen. Nevertheless, director David Seltzer noticed that some of his peers, Haim seemed at ease with his burgeoning heartthrob status

Science fiction film (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that …

Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang was one of the first feature length science fiction films in history. It was produced at Studio Babelsberg, Germany. (Photo shows the statue of the film figure Maria at Filmpark Babelsberg)

2001: A Space Odyssey, the landmark 1968 collaboration between filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and classic science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke featured groundbreaking special effects, such as the realization of the space ship Discovery One (pictured here)